{"id":254839,"date":"2024-11-08T11:50:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T06:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=254839"},"modified":"2024-11-08T11:50:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T06:20:23","slug":"john-was-the-right-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/john-was-the-right-man\/","title":{"rendered":"John was the right man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sandeep Patil feels that &#8220;Since 2000, India have had an array of international coaches and support staff. This has paid rich dividends because India&#8217;s overseas record has improved steadily. It all started with John Wright becoming India&#8217;s first foreign coach .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I think John was the ideal coach for India. He was soft spoken,polite, well-mannered, always kept to himself, and was happy to be in Sourav Ganguly&#8217;s shadow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In addition to all that, he kept a distance from the Press. He managed that so well, that he was hardly in the news \u2014 unlike what happened in the Greg Chappell years,&#8221; Patil wrote in his book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;With Chappell, he was in the news every day. It is very important for a coach to first understand the policy of that particular board, the thinking of the board members, and the President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandeep Patil feels that &#8220;Since 2000, India have had an array of international coaches and support staff. This has paid rich dividends because India&#8217;s overseas record has improved steadily. It all started with John Wright becoming India&#8217;s first foreign coach . &#8220;I think John was the ideal coach for India. He was soft spoken,polite, well-mannered, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":254840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29609,2],"tags":[116037,116036,24385],"class_list":["post-254839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports-news","category-top-stories","tag-john","tag-john-was-the-right-man","tag-sourav-ganguly"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/john.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254841,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254839\/revisions\/254841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}